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Author Guo, Xuezhi, 1956- author.

Title China's security state : philosophy, evolution, and politics / Xuezhi Guo
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 486 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; China's Security State: Philosophy, Evolution, and Politics; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Evolution and Features; Mechanisms of the CCP Security and Intelligence Apparatuses; Security and Intelligence Apparatuses and CCP Elite Politics; Methodology and Organization of the Study; 1: Historical Evolution of Public Security Organizations; Committee for Eliminating Counterrevolutionaries; State Political Security Bureau; Department of Eliminating Traitors, Spies, and Trotskyites; Bureau of Public Security
The CCP Police Forces in the 1940s Civil War 2: From the Social Affairs Department to Ministry of Public Security; Legacy of the Social Affairs Department; Ministry of Public Security and the CCP's Elite Politics; Ministry of Public Security in the Cultural Revolution; Ministry of Public Security in the Reform Era; The Judicial System in Transition; 3: Leading Central Security Agency; Features, Operations, and Mechanism; Politics of the MPS Ninth Bureau; Central Guard Bureau under Dual Leadership; The Central Security Services and the Role of Wang Dongxing
The Central Guard Bureau in the Post-Mao Era 4: Elite Security Force; From Central Guard Brigade to Central Guard Regiment; Development toward Professionalism in the Early 1950s; The Reorganization of the Central Guard Regiment; Development toward a Personal Security Force in the Early 1960s; Reorganizing the Security Apparatus on the Eve of the Cultural Revolution; Leadership Security and Politics in the Zhongnanhai; Elite Security Apparatus under Post-Mao Leadership; 5: Armed Police and Their Historical Role in CCP Politics; Chinese People's Public Security Forces, 1949-1950
People's Liberation Army Public Security Forces, 1950-1955 The PLA Public Security Army, 1955-1957; The PLA Public Security Forces, 1957-1958; From People's Armed Police to People's Public Security Forces, 1958-1966; Merger with the People's Liberation Army, 1966-1982; 6: People's Armed Police in the Reform Era; Toward Transition: From Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping; Emergence of the People's Armed Police; Features and Functions of the PAP; Dilemma of Dual Leadership; The PAP and Local Politics; The Role of the PAP in Maintaining Social Stability; The PAP and Post-Deng Leadership Politics
7: Garrison Commands Historical Evolution of Garrison Commands; Garrison Commands in the Reform Era; Institutional Guarantee of Civilian Control over the Military; Rise of Garrison Commands in the New Millennium; Beijing Garrison Command in the Early 1960s; Beijing Garrison Command in the Cultural Revolution; Beijing Garrison Command in the Post-Mao Era; 8: CCP Intelligence Agencies and Services in the Revolutionary Era; Establishment of the Special Services Division; Intelligence Cell of the Special Services Division; Political Security Department and State Political Security Bureau
Summary "China's Security State describes the creation, evolution, and development of Chinese security and intelligence agencies as well as their role in influencing Chinese Communist Party politics throughout the party's history"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Zhongguo gong chan dang -- History
SUBJECT Zhongguo gong chan dang fast
Subject National security -- China -- History
Intelligence service -- China -- History
Police -- China -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Intelligence service
National security
Police
China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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